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Items by Jehan Alfarra
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Profile: Prof Richard Falk
Born into a Jewish family in New York in 1930, Richard Falk grew up to become a distinguished academic, author and public speaker. He is now a professor emeritus of International Law at Princeton University in the United States and the former UN special rapporteur for Human Rights in...
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Gaza: Two years on
Two years on from the onset of Israel’s 51-day war on Gaza, life in the besieged Strip is virtually hopeless for the 1.8 million people living there. The 2014 Israeli-led offensive left more than 2,200 Palestinians dead, the vast majority civilians, and 73 Israelis killed, 67 of them soldiers. Very...
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UN double standards with regards to Israel
There has been a notable increase in worldwide grassroots action attempting to hold Israel accountable for its large-scale violations of international law and Palestinian human rights as well as its sustained occupation of Palestine. This is perhaps best reflected in the growing support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions...
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Palestinians of Syria: Refugees once more
As a deadly conflict unfolded and gripped the country, Syria's Palestinian refugees found themselves displaced once again, this time forced to venture even further away from Palestine....
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Iraqis in UK discuss impact of Shia militias on the Middle East
Last week, the Foreign Relations Bureau of Iraq (FRB), an Iraqi opposition group based in London, held a symposium gathering academics and experts to discuss the effect of extremist Shia militancy in Iran, Iraq and Syria and its wider impact on the region. This symposium is one of the first...
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Gaza’s activists tweet to end internal divisions
A group of 30 social media activists in Gaza gathered on the evening of 14 June and launched a campaign to mark the ninth anniversary of the Palestinian political division and call for national unity. As the Fatah and Hamas delegations convene in Doha to discuss ways to implement the...
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A musical note from Gaza to the UK
On the morning of Friday 3 June, four young Palestinian musicians left the Gaza Strip for the first time in their lives, heading for Brighton to perform classical and contemporary Middle Eastern music. The group consists of Najlaa Humaid, the band’s singer, guitarist Mohammed Shoman, oud player Mohannad Abu Safia...
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'Keeping Abu Khdeir's memory alive will help raise awareness of Palestinian cause'
Exclusive interview with Suha Abu Khdeir, mother of Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir who was kidnapped and burned alive by Israeli settlers in 2014...
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Dawabsheh living with emotional scars following arson attack
The five-year-old was the sole survivor of an arson attack on his family’s home when extremist settlers firebombed the property, killing his mother, father and brother ...
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The Nakba: A Walk Down Memory Lane
“… Jews, Muslims and Allah Hu Akbar!… I am not interested in Judaism and Islam as an argument for my case, my case is national determination”. An exclusive interview with Antoine Raffoul ...
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Popping into London’s only Iraqi supperclub
In order to help people understand and appreciate Iraq's rich culture and the true essence of the people, Philip Juma is hoping to connect Londoners with the country's rich and varied cuisine....
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Humanity washed ashore: Is Europe doing enough?
Europe has been facing its biggest refugee crisis since World War II...
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Humanity washed ashore: Is Europe doing enough?
Europe has been facing its biggest refugee crisis since World War II...
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Interview with Israeli Knesset member Yousef Jabareen
Israeli Knesset member Yousef Jabareen speaks to MEMO about the discrimination and exclusion Arab citizens face in Israel....
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Stepping into the life of displaced refugees
London’s P21 Gallery is presenting a group exhibition entitled “Jerusalem//Home”, bringing together the photographic works of four young photographers from Jerusalem, ceramic works by two London-based artists, and digital artworks by a US-based Palestinian American artist. On entering the gallery, the viewer encounters a set of beautifully-captured photographs of Jerusalem’s...
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UK MPs speak out about Israeli detention of Palestinian children
British parliament held a debate on the issue of child prisoners and detainees in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the second time yesterday, following a debate on the issue in 2010. The debate was procured by Sarah Champion MP, who began by addressing the ill-treatment meted out to Palestinian children...
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Israel is gradually eroding both Palestinian infrastructure and any hope for statehood
Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the world has been observing the gradual disintegration of any hope for Palestinian statehood. There is no clearer evidence of this than the severe neglect and active restriction and destruction of both Palestine’s historical and newly established infrastructure in the...
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My painful memories, one year on
When I was a schoolgirl, I studied and memorised dates upon dates marking significant events and incidents in the course of the Palestinian struggle. As I grew older, my history book gradually got thicker. The anniversaries were stacking up and I was living Palestine’s history as it was being...
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Oxford Brookes Scholar fighting for his life in Gaza
A former Oxford Brookes scholar is fighting for his life in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza after his sister’s flat was bombed by Israeli forces in the latest assault on the besieged Strip. The third recipient of the annual Gaza Oxford Brookes Scholarship, founded in the aftermath of Israel’s Operation...
